Business
to Business Exchange, Town Hall Meeting Moderator, Andrew
Carr, Executive Director of the Rainbow/PUSH Wall Street Project

Andrew
Carr is a results-driven businessman, motivational speaker,
leader, strategist, change manager, relationship manager and
public policy analyst. His career has been distinguished by
his ability to get things done. Mr. Carr is currently the
Executive Director of the Rainbow/PUSH Wall Street Project,
an initiative of the Citizenship Education Fund, a non-profit
organization founded by civil rights leader Rev. Jesse L.
Jackson, Sr., working with Fortune 500 corporations to level
the economic playing field and create forums where small minority
and women-owned businesses can compete. Previously, Mr. Carr
worked for JPMorgan Chase, as a Small Business Relationship
Manager, he served as advisor to a portfolio of 400 small
businesses and managed a $16 million portfolio of business
deposits, credits and investments. In addition, he provided
consulting services to businesses and financial service organizations
as founder and CEO of the A.L. Carr Group, working with M.R.
Beal & Company, the Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone,
Wall Street Conferences Inc., and others.

Mr. Carr has marketed, negotiated and structured
over $13 billion of tax-exempt and taxable securities for
state and local agencies and electric utilities, including
financial advisory services for over $2.3 billion of international
bond deals. Mr. Carr’s prior client experience includes
serving as underwriting manager for state agencies in Connecticut,
Illinois, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina,
and many others. He has held executive positions at A.G. Edwards
& Sons Inc. and at UBS/PaineWebber Inc., and in the public
sector has worked with the Illinois Commerce Commission, the
Illinois Housing Development Authority, and City Water, Light
and Power in Springfield, IL.

He is immediate past international president
of the Urban Financial Services Coalition, the trade association
of professionals of color in the financial services industry
and immediate past president of the New York Chapter. He serves
on the membership committee of the Financial Women Association,
the trade association of women and minorities in the financial
services industry, is a past board member of the New York
Chapter of the National Association of Securities Professionals,
a member of the National Black MBA Association, and is a member
of Phi Beta Sigma fraternity. He has been a speaker for Goldman
Sachs’s Institute for Entrepreneurial Thinking, the
American Management Association’s Youth Programs, Citigroup
African-American Heritage Network, Minority Interchange, Congressman
Gregory W. Meeks, New York, 6th District and the John F. Kennedy
School of Government, Harvard University and Urban Financial
Services Coalition.

Mr. Carr has received numerous awards in his
distinguished career. He has received the Distinguished Partnership
Award from The Caribbean American Chamber of Commerce and
Industry, Inc.; the Pyramid Award in Leadership from the African
Heritage Parade Committee, Inc., the Dr. Charles R. Drew Community
Service Award from The American Red Cross, Civic Community
Award from NV Magazine and the Better Business Award from
Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc.

Mr. Carr is a graduate of Western Illinois
University. He holds a MA in Economics from the University
of Illinois at Springfield and a MBA in Finance from the University
of Chicago. He also, is a Registered Securities Representative.